After Transplant, Former UConn Athlete Goes To Bat For Organ Donation

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Former UConn baseball player Mike Galati was in dire need of a liver transplant. His teammate Jim Penders, now the Huskies’ baseball coach, offered to donate part of his, but he turned out not to be a match. Things weren’t looking good.

But then came a phone call in June 2013 that changed everything. Through friends and social media he was put in touch with the family of a Maryland judge, Hon. J. Michael Conroy, who had died suddenly of an aneurysm. He was a match. Surgeons went to work, and Mr. Galati, 37, has a new liver and is doing well.